Compound hook



March 11, 1930 c. w. BLISS 1,749,871

COMPOUND HOOK Filed March 5, 1929 Patented Mar. 1 1 1930 PATENT OFFICE CHARLES W. BLIS S, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA COMPOUND HOOK Application filed March 5,

This invention relates to garment bags and especially to hanger hooks therefor.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a compound hanger, or suspension shook, having a tongue for detachably connecting the hanger with a bag.

.Another object of the invention is to provide a compound hanger for a bag, or the like, which is provided with a tongue for m detachably connecting the hanger with a bag,

and which has a swivel hook connected therewith.

A third object of the invention is to provide a bag hanger which is provided with 15 a two-point suspension element, a tongue for detachably connecting the hanger with a bag, and a swivel hook connected with the hanger element.

Other objects of the invention are men- 0 tioned and described herein. 7

The preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective View of the top of a garment bag to which my invent-ion is applied and showing it supported by a wall hook; and

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the hanger swivel hook connected with an overhead 3 transverse supporting bar.

Similar numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views on the drawing.

A reference to the details of the drawing indicates that the numeral 1 represents a fragment of a garment bag top which is usually made of cloth or other suitable fabric, and which has the rectangular spreader board 2 arranged within it to shape the bag top as shown, said board or spreader being formed of wood, composition board, or other suitable material. Obviously, any other type of spreader may be used to rectangularly shape the bag top.

Numerals 3 and 4 indicate a pair of eyebolts, or screws, suitably secured in the spreader element 2 in a transverse plane and adapted to carry the compound hook or hanger element hereinafter described. As is well known in this art, garment bags are 1929. Serial No. 344,545.

usually suspended in closets wherein either the usual laterally projecting wall hook 5 (Fig. 1) or an overhead transverse bar 6 is utilized to support the bag (Fig. 2), and the hanger element must be designed to properly and efliciently meet either of these two supporting elements. 7

My improved compound hanger is preferably made of heavy wire suitably bent to provide the necessary supporting hooks to connect with either the wall hook 5 or the overhead bar 6, and it contemplates the formation therein of the horizontal spring tongue 7 which is removably arranged in the bight of the elements 3 and 4 to connect the hanger with the bag 1, as hereinafter described. The outer or free end of the tongue 7 extends beyond the bight of element 3 and is disengageably connected with the detent hook 8 which is formed on the lower end of the depending leg 9 which is a part of the horizontal leg 10 of the hanger unit, said leg 10 beingdisposed in a plane above the tongue 7 and being tortuously extended to connect with the upright leg 13 which is upwardly bent from the base section 7' of the tongue 7 and which is arranged adjacent the eye element 4:.

Intermediate hanger leg 13 and the leg 10 there is provided the upright leg 11, shorter Y than leg 1", extending from the leg 10 and preferably parallel with leg 13, said leg 11 having the hook 14 bent laterally therefrom at its upper extremity which hook aligns wit} the laterally projecting hook 15 formed on the upper end of leg 13, the points of said hooks being connected by the horizontal log 12 of the hal'lger unit. 7

The horizontal hanger unit leg 10 has a latezaily projecting eye element 16 formed thereon from the body of the wire, the bight of said eye being swivelly engaged by the closed hook 17 of the separate element book '18, the latter being preferably arranged mid way of the leg 10 to effect advantageous bali ancing of the hanger unit, when the latter is connected with the bag.

Obviously, when the hooks 14 and 15 engage the wall hook 5 the bag 1 cannot sag or tilt, for the dual point engagement of the hooks effectually prevents such action by the bag. And when thebag is supported by the swivel hook 18 from the bar 6 there is no tilting or sagging thereof.

I claim:

1. A wire hanger of the character described comprising a tongue having a base section, a leg above said tongue and connected with the tongue base, a tongue detent depending from said leg and adapted to be disengageably connected with said tongue, a tortuous "suspension hook formed intermediate said leg and tongue base, and a separate element suspension member swivelly connected with said leg between said hook and tongue detent.

2. A wire hanger of the character described comprising atongue having a basesection, a leg above said tongue and connected with the tongue base, a tongue detent depending fromsaid leg and adapted to be disengageably connected with said tongue, a tortuous twopoint suspension element formed intermediate said leg and the tongue base, and a separate element suspension member swivelly connected with said leg.

engageably connected with said tongue, and a separate suspension element swivelly connected with said leg between said detent ele- V ment integral with said'leg element, and an integral tongue det-ent depending from said leg elementand adapted to be disengageably engaged by said tongue.

In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature this 1st day-of March, 1929.

7 CHARLES W. BLISS,

3.- A wire hangerof the character described comprising a spring tongue having a base section, a leg above saidtongue and substantially parallel therewith, said leg being connected with the base of said tongue, a tongue detent depending from said leg and adapted to be disengageably connected with said tongue, a tortuous suspension hook formed intermediate said leg and the base of said tongue, and a separate element suspension member swivelly connectedwith said leg between said hook and tongue detent. s

4. A wire hanger of the character described comprising a tongue element, a leg element above said tongue and integral therewith, said leg being provided with an integral hook and a second separate element suspension hook swivelly Connected therewith,-and an integral tongue detent depending from said leg element. 7 s

5. A wire hanger of the character described comprising a tongue element, a leg element above said tongue element and integral there.- with, said leg element being provided with an integral hook and a second'separate element suspension hook swivelly connected with i av laterally projecting eye, element integral "with said leg element, and in integral tongue detent depending fromsaid leg element.

6. The combination with a clothing recep- I tacle comprising a flexible envelope and a spreader inside the envelope, of means connected with said spreader providing a plurality of suspension apertures accessible from the receptacle exterior, a wire hanger comprising a tongue engaging said suspension apertures, a leg above said tongue and connected therewith, said leg being provided with suspension means, a tongue detent depending fromsaid leg and adapted to be dis- 

